Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:11 -0400, Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> >
> > Two approches:
> > 1. For creating a single web page: Try AbiWord, with the Save As
> > XHTML
> > feature. It tends to work well, render decently. It's fine for a quick
> > page. However,
> > 2. For creating an intricate web site, or a series of web pages,
> > Learn
> > XHTML, CSS, and perhaps javascript. Code it from scratch in nano,
> > Kate,
> > Gedit, whatever, because there is no WYSIWYG editor currently in
> > existence that does everything to quality. I.E. things do not render
> > currectly cross-platform or cross-browser, pieces of code do not
> > validate, or perhaps the sources are simply unorganized.
> > 3. If you simply *must* ignore 2, try NVU (which is based on the
> > original Mozilla Composer). You don't have my blessing.
> >
> > My friend says that DW has a "template" feature that automatizes
> > building a website. How would you do that without DW?
> >
> > I don't know DW, I don't know web designing, but I suspect that this
> > is what CSS is for, isn't it?
> >
> > Again, how would you build a large website of similar pages?
>
> This depends on the Web host. Some hosts offer scripting languages like
> Perl, PHP, etc.
>
> In my case, I was able to make my switch from Dreamweaver easier by
> using PHP includes at the top and bottom of my page content. These
> includes contained the HTML that was common to all of the pages on my
> site. The benefit of this was that there was very little duplication of
> HTML code, and that's always a good thing.
>
> Also, the Web content editors would work only with the main content of
> the page, not any of the header or footer stuff.
>
> I wrote an article about my Dreamweaver -> Free Software Web Development
> switch:
> http://ithacafreesoftware.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62
>
>
Absolutely. If you can learn some basic PHP, start coding by hand and
send it to your web host.
But, again, we're looking for the least-bad WYSIWYG editor, I think, and
NVU is the only one I even know of other than mozilla composer.
Follow up to a previous post: that NVU package does *not* work on Sarge.
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Matthew K Poer
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